At a minimum, one can infer from our societies’ large “willingness-to-pay” for assisted reproductive technology interventions (such as in vitro fertilization, which costs $12,000 or more per attempt) that infertility matters greatly to those who are affected and that they consider it a highly significant disability. 8 There are substantial social costs as well—50% of couples’ infertility problems are male related, yet in practice, women are unfairly given the major share of blame when couples can’t conceive.
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Mapping Out the under-Recognized Burden of Human Infertility Linked to <i>Schistosoma haematobium</i> Infection.
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